Drift Ops Canada Drifting body in Canada.

 

D1 Grand Prix Premier production car drifting series.

 

French Drift Series First French Drift Competition.

 

DriftMania Canadian drifting championship website.

 

Prodrift Ireland Home to the Prodrift Irish National Series

 

Prodrift Europe Home to the Prodrift European Series

 

D1NZ The New Zealand National Drifting Championship

 

drifting.pl Polish official drifting site

 

USDrift - Events since 2002.

 

Pro-Am - The First National Amateur Championship in North America.

 

Formula Drift - Major Drift events since 2003

 

Driftsport - German Drift Association (Deutscher Drift Cup)

 

Hungarian Drift Series (HDS) - Hungarian Drift Association

 

Eurodrift - The UK Pro-Am Drifting Championship

 

European Drift Championship - The European Drift Championship

Anime and Manga

The manga series Initial D by Shuichi Shigeno, later adapted to an anime, an arcade game, and a Live action film, tells the story of a young kid taking on the Touge of Japan's Mt. Akina in the Gunma prefecture. Keiichi Tsuchiya acts as a consultant and makes a voice cameo in one episode of the anime.

The manga "Over Rev!" prominently features drifting as a way to attack turns in mountain touge battles, this series is praised for its realistic view on street racing and drifting techniques.

 

Video Games

Driving simulators like Gran Turismo, Enthusia Professional Racing, Forza Motorsport and its sequel, Live for Speed, and other racing games (certain Need for Speed series, etc.) include the physics necessary to simulate drifting. Live for Speed has online multiplayer servers specifically for drifting.

Other drifting games include Tokyo Xtreme Racer Drift, Tokyo Xtreme Racer Drift 2, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Juiced 2 and D1 Gran Prix.

Drift City, an MMORPG where one is able to complete missions to gain money and experience, which usually involve some use of drifting.

 

Television

The presenters of British TV program Top Gear are known to enjoy powersliding cars on their test track. In the final episode of series 6 Richard Hammond tested the Vauxhall Monaro VX-R and was taught how to drift in the same car by D1 Grand Prix driver Yasuyuki Kazama. Despite being unable to speak English, Kazama was able to teach Hammond by using hand signals. Kazama then took the VX-R and showed Hammond how to drift properly.

Drift events have been covered by major TV sports networks worldwide, as well as through a regular program on US-based cable TV network G4techTV.

One of the earliest coverage on drifting was at the first episode of Jeremy Clarkson's Motorworld, at the early segment of the episode which deals with Japanese car culture, Jeremy Clarkson visits a touge where drift runs took place and remarked that its like joyriding but with their own cars, he then interviewed a boy of 19 when his 180SX is waiting for it to be recovered. He then attends a drifting event where he interviewed Dorikin.

The children's TV Series Roary the Racing Car has a character - Drifter - who is so named because of his ability to Drift around corners. He is often shown to be almost perpendicular to the intended direction of travel.

 

Movies

Slide America (May 2007) is a documentary about the American Drift scene and culture. They traveled to 19 cities filming street drifting, grassroots events, and interviewing drifters.

Drift Alliance Bad as Hell (May 2006) is a documentary about Drift Alliance, a popular drift team composed of Vaughn Gittin Jr., Tony Angelo, Chris Forsberg, and Ryan Hampton. The documentary features Drift Alliance at competitions as well as demonstrations.

Drift: The Sideways Craze (2007) is a documentary HD film that features the art of professional drifting. National drifting champion Samuel Hubinette and drifting rival Ken Gushi prepare for the D1 Grand Prix, while they teach a young fan the basic elements of drifting. The film can be found on Discovery HD Theatre.

The third film in the The Fast and the Furious series, Tokyo Drift, is set in a romanticized version of Japan's drift culture. The film very loosely depicts the Japanese drift-racing environment. However, little to no street racing — such as that depicted in the feature — takes place in major Japanese cities, and the majority of racing is undertaken on licensed tracks or on touges (mountain passes).

Drifting and Touge driving are featured in the third, fifth and final installment of the Shuto Kousoku Trial series.

In the Pixar movie Cars, Lightning McQueen learns drifting from Doc Hudson.

Impak Maksima (literal translation from Malay language is Maximum Impact) and Evolusi: KL Drift (Evolution: Kuala Lumpur Drift)

In the Initial D live action movie, a Toyota Corolla Trueno/GTS(AE86), Mazda RX7Gen2(FC3S), Mitsubishi Lancer EvoIII, and Nissan Skyline GTR32 were drifted.